As correntes do pensamento geográfico e a geografia ensinada no ensino fundamental: objetivos,objeto de estudo e a formação dos conceitos geográficos

Abstract

This article has the objective of discussing the interfaces between the lines of geographical thought and geography taught in elementary school with emphasis on “geographic literacy” in the XXI century. To contemplate the scope above a theoretical study was done culminating in a dissertation on the influence that the Traditional line- determinism, possibilism, regionalism - and the Modern line- pragmatic, critical - exerted on the formal teaching of geography as well as in the way this learning process was historically designed, shedding light to the objectives, subject of study and the construction of geographical concepts by the child. It was noted that, in contemporary times, it is no longer a positivist view of education based solely on mnemonic transmission instead should understand it as a tool for understanding reality. It is suggested to develop geographic knowledge from the early childhood, providing contextualized learning, co-relating the subject, time and space in a hermeneutic perspective of production and transformation of society.